Quick directions:

./configure
make
make install

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To build an rpm, use

rpmbuild -tb pipemeter-x.x.x.tar.gz

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This is pipemeter. It is a silly litte program that tells you how fast
things are moving through its stdin -> stdout. I did it so that when
I'm doing a "wannabe ghost" like this:


tar cf - | nc new.faster.ubermachine 9999

I can tell how fast its going by now doing

tar cf - | pipemeter | nc new.faster.ubermachine 9999

And on the other end instead of

nc -l 9999 | tar xf -

now

nc -l 9999 | pipemeter | tar xf -

Thanks to Brian Wirch, it also has a progressmeter. Example:

pipemeter -f /usr/src/linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2 | bzcat | tar xf -

Produces a nice status of the unbzipping of the kernel. A future hope
is to have a way to run two or more pipemeters at once. Currently such
a thing will cause them to overwrite eachother.

Another hope is to allow a pipemeter to be running, and have its output
come out in some sort of ncurses window.


  Clint Byrum <cbyrum@spamaps.org>